A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny ..

by: Johnson, Charles, fl. 1724-1731; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1724

Topics: Pirates

Publisher: London : Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, at the Black-boy in Pater-Noster-Row

Collection: biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Attribution to Defoe is based on internal textual relationship to his works of proven authorship together with supporting external evidence. Cf. J. H. Moore. Defoe in the pillory. Bloomington, Ind., 1939, p. 126-188. However, see also P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens, The canonisation of Daniel Defoe, for a refutation of Defoe's authorship of this work

First ed. was printed for C. Rivington in 1724 under title: A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates ... By Captain Charles Johnson

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Advertisement on verso of leaf with page no. 427

Provenance: To Dr. [Clark?] from Robt. Rennie Sr. and R. [G?] Rennie (presentation inscription); A. Wetmore (autograph)

Wetmore Collection

Imperfect copy: lacks 1 plate